No, they're made by different companies, but the person behind "The Goode Family" is back on TV.

Fox's animated adaptation of the surprise 2004 hit film "Napoleon Dynamite" is produced by Jared and Jerusha Hess, the husband-and-wife team who created the original film, with the animation expertise provided by longtime "Simpsons" producer Mike Scully.

You're not the first to note the similarity, though everyone else does it in a different way. When "Napoleon Dynamite" debuted in January, many people said that the animation looks similar to that of "Beavis and Butt-Head," which is the series that made "Goode Family" creator Mike Judge famous.

And now, three years after "The Goode Family's" hasty cancelation, Judge is back with new episodes of "Beavis and Butt-Head."

That series, about two clueless metal-head friends, initially ran on MTV from 1993 to 1997, after which Judge turned to film (most notably the 1999 cult classic "Office Space") and then to another series, "King of the Hill."

"King of the Hill" followed comically conservative Hank Hill and his family, and was a huge hit on Fox. Apparently in the interest of fairness, Judge then created "The Goode Family," a series about laughably liberal Gerald Goode and his family. This series was not a hit, though, and it only lasted one season, airing during summer 2009 on ABC.

Judge is back, though, returning to the title that made him famous. He and MTV revived "Beavis and Butt-Head" last fall, and the ratings are good so far.

The ratings for "Napoleon Dynamite," on the other hand, haven't been so good. It drew in four million sets of eyes on March 6 (which Fox billed as its season finale, though it was only the show's sixth episode), which may seem fine if you don't consider that it's a one million-viewer drop from its lead-in, "The Simpsons."

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